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Unintentionally funny scientific drawing by Carl von Linné

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Yea. That's an original by him, a scientific picture from the 18th century. It depicts himself watching the midnight sun.


I found no detailed description of it, but I assume that he didn't actually plan to draw a rather unimpressed fat blob of a man cheering, rather that the head is the sun, the body a fjord, the arms the mountain slopes and he is actually the little scribble on the left standing on the hill. But it looks so unintentionally silly, I have to giggle everytime.

(Note also that this was probably fothographed through broken glass, some of the lines seem to be cracks and not part of the drawing)


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